Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika
by R. Balasubramanian | 151,292 words | ISBN-10: 8185208115 | ISBN-13: 9788185208114
The English translation of Sureshvara’s Taittiriya Vartika, which is a commentary on Shankara’s Bhashya on the Taittiriya Upanishad. Taittiriya Vartika contains a further explanation of the words of Shankara-Acharya, the famous commentator who wrote many texts belonging to Advaita-Vedanta. Sureshvaracharya was his direct disciple and lived in the 9...
Verse 3.75
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
स यश्चायमिति ह्युक्तिरन्नान्नादादिकस्य हि ।
ग्रन्थस्य ग्रसनार्थाय ब्रह्मविद्यापरस्य तु ॥ ७५ ॥
sa yaścāyamiti hyuktirannānnādādikasya hi |
granthasya grasanārthāya brahmavidyāparasya tu || 75 ||
English translation of verse 3.75:
It is with a view to show that the things of the universe, which are related as food and the eater of food, are, indeed, sublatcd(by knowledge) that this part of the Upaniṣad beginning from sa yaścāyam, etc., whose import is in Brahman-knowledge, has been stated.
Notes:
This verse explains the purport of the concluding part of the tenth anuvāka beginning from sa yaścāyam-puruṣe, etc. The central idea conveyed here is that the world of diversity set up by avidyā is sublated by knowledge and that non-duality is real (jñānabādhyaṃ dvaitaṃ, advaitaṃ-pāramārthikam).
The word grasana [grasanam] which occurs in the second line of the verse means eating or swallowing. Here it is used in the sense of jñānabalena bādhanam.